Readers Theater Scripts:
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Native Americans confront a family of settlers that has built their cabin by an old trail.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Kit, from Barbados, immigrates to the colony of Connecticut to live with her only remaining family.
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
An apprentice becomes involved with Revolutionary War intrigues.
The Drinking Gourd
F. N. Monjo
Young Tommy discovers runaway slaves hidden in his father's barn and helps them find the Underground Railroad.
Zia
Scott O'Dell
Zia and her brother discover a boat on the beach below the Santa Barbara Mission.
The House of Sixty Fathers
Meindert DeJong
Tien Pao and his family escape Japanese invaders during World War II.
Journey Home
Yoshiko Uchida
Yuki and her family, in a Japanese-American concentration camp, hear the news that the war is over at last.
From Social Studies Readers Theater for Children by Mildred Knight Laughlin, Peggy Tubbs Black, and Margery Kirby Loberg from Teacher Ideas Press.
Social Studies Readers Theater
To use Readers Theater with social studies, students read an historical novel, then select one part of it to script. This article has many ideas and scripts for teachers to utilize.
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